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He realised that whilst the issue with one of his managers was important, in the scale of things it was just another issue that he would have to deal with. Overall, his company was back making good consistent profits, his market share was increasing, things with the family were going well, especially having taken action on his ageing parents as a result of a previous Po7 group discussion, and he was doing pretty well himself – he had lost a stone, was bac

Each Power of Seven group does a leadership retreat every year. The first one is called CLARITY. It’s all about getting clarity on your professional and personal life and ensuring work/life alignment. What’s the point in being successful in business and not in life and vice versa. After a CLARITY retreat you have a vision and strategy for YOUR future. …

This is from an article of Brian Arthur’s in the Harvard Business Review. “Imagine you are milling about in a large casino with the top figures in the high-tech-the Gates, Gerstners, and Groves of their industries. Over at one table, a game is starting called Multimedia. Over at another is a game called Web Services. In the corner is Electronic …

Being an employed Managing Director is not without its challenges, such as: being undermined by your employer (CEO, Owner, board, etc) working harder than most yet not having equity (or enough) in the business. not having ultimate decision making authority doubting yourself because you were not the entrepreneur feeling isolated corporate politics lacking certainty that all this hard work is …

Our Leadership Journey: Sustaining Performance & Developing Resilience – Physically Mentally, Emotionally & Spiritually. This was the theme for a leaders retreat for a Power of Seven group last week at Glenstal Abbey Co. Limerick. What did we do? Updated each other on important aspects of our leadership. Updated progress on 12 mth goals. Practiced yoga. Attended the monks church to …

The blind spot in current leaders’ thought is that they know all about what leaders do and how they do it—but not know about the source level, that is, the inner place or the state of awareness from which leaders and social systems operate. I first recognized this when I interviewed Bill O’Brien, the late CEO of Hanover Insurance. Summarising …

The Po7 Story

Started accidentally in 2005, Barry Walsh believed some of his clients should be talking. He invited them and a few others to dinner. As Yogi Bear said "it was impossible to have a conversation, there was so many people talking". The group thought it a good idea to meet on a regular basis, and so they did, every second month over the last nine years. Barry was encouraged by that group to set up other groups to help other business owners. The Power of Seven was formally born and many groups have started since with many more to come too. Barry's vision is to make the Po7 available to every business owner in the world.